According to a new report from the CDC,
the Center for Disease Control,
African Americans are being “disproportionately affected by
COVID-19.” The data showed that 33% of those hospitalized are
black, a rate that outstripsrelative population size.
KGNU's Claudia Cragg, @claudiacragg
speaks here with Daniel E. Dawes, a nationally recognized leader in
healthcare law and policy, who has been an instrumental figure in
shaping the Affordable Care Act, aka 'Obamacare' and who also
founded and chaired the largest advocacy group focused on
developing comprehensive legislation to reform the US health care
system. This advocacy group of more than 300 national organizations
and coalitions, the National Working Group on Health Disparities
and Health Reform, worked to ensure passage of the landmark health
reform law and to include provisions to improve healthcare quality
and delivery.
About the Podcast
Interviews with personalities, experts and authors.